Social and cultural history

Winner of the Jewish Chronicle Harold H.

In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history.

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert.

By following a group of four contemporary girls - including her younger self - as they come of age in the seventies, Wolf shows how our culture tries to shape and confine women's desire.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London s Bohemia.

This is the story of Christopher Isherwood s parents their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father s death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960.

Medieval gardens; cookshops; spices; ale, beer, wine and spirits; the food of peasants, labourers, townspeople, the wealthy, the poor and the country gentleman; fish, meat and game; the feeding of infants, children; dairy products; vitamins, proteins, fat and fibre; the adulteration of food; the four bottle man; bread; poaching; tea, coffee and chocolate; food in schools and institutions; sugar and sweetmeats; root crops; the agricultural revolution; the importance of 'white meats', the vegetarian diet; menus and recipes.

The language of crime has a long and venerable history - in fact, the first collection of words specifically used by criminals, Hye-Way to the Spittel House, dates from as early as 1531.

World's End is the story of Donald Wheal s childhood in Chelsea's World's End at the height of the Second World War.

Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind.

THE BOOK THAT EXPOSED THE HEARTBREAKING SCANDAL OF BRITAIN'S FORGOTTEN AND ABUSED CHILD MIGRANTS - now a film, Oranges and Sunshine, starring Emily Watson.

This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises.

The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age.

Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time.

Refreshes the parts other history books can t reach.

Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker?

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'Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read?

The engaging and eye-opening story of how we and our ancestors entered the world.

In May 2003 journalist Rory McCarthy went to Iraq to cover what was claimed to be the triumphant rebuilding of the country after the American invasion.

'We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football.

What do women look for in a man?

This enchanting, juicy history takes us from the pineapple's origins in the Amazon rainforests to its first tasting by Columbus in Guadeloupe and its starring role on the royal dinner tables of Europe.

'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'.

From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French cooking.

One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies.

There is now no published theory to explain the enigma of the Turin Shroud that fits the known evidence.

142 Strand was the home of the brilliant, unconventional young publisher John Chapman.

**AS FEATURED ON HOAXED PODCAST**This definitive book delves into why so many people are ready to believe in conspiracy theories, and the damage it can cause.

Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II.

Hoxton today is one of the most fashionable parts of inner London, yet before the Blitz, it was the capital's most notorious slum area.

Charles Greville (1794-1865) made his first occasional diary entries in 1814, but the diary only became a regular habit in the mid-1820s, continuing with occasional breaks, about which he is self-reproachful, through the reigns of George IV, William IV and Victoria.

In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried.

Anne Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of the author of Vanity Fair and step-aunt of Virginia Woolf, was also a fine writer.

This is a book on the Russian Revolution with a difference.

The Secret History of Our Streets explores six roads spread across inner London - from Camberwell, Holland Park and Islington to Shoreditch, Deptford and Bermondsey - through the experiences of the people who lived there.

This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution.

Gillian Tindall is well known for her ability to breathe a passionate life into the generations of those who have walked the earth before us.

Just For One Day takes you on Louise Wener's musical odyssey from awkward 80s suburban pop geek to 90s jet-set Britpop goddess.

There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground.

Philip Roth is the voice of our times.

Das Holocaust- und Zweit-Weltkriegs-Gedenken und die daraus erwachsenen Erzählungen haben auch in der Schweiz ihre Spuren hinterlassen.

A firsthand look at the world of the English countryside—and how drastically it changed during the twentieth century.

'Exhilarating and fascinating' KATY HESSEL | 'Rich and detailed' CHLO ASHBY | 'Enlightening' TABISH KHAN | 'Sheds light on an uncharted area of art history' JENNY PERY | 'An essential read' EDWARD BROOKE-HITCHINGMeet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history.

Una obra fundamental sobre las causas históricas y materiales del surgimiento del racismo.

Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, followed her own compass in everything she did.

THE BESTSELLING MODERN CLASSIC.

'A NOVEL TO LOVE AND TREASURE' PHILIPPA GREGORY'REMARKABLE' MICHAEL ONDAATJE'POIGNANTLY MOVING' JOYCE CAROL OATES Salzburg, 1946.

In THE ARK BEFORE NOAH, British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enable a radical new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth.